FABOLOUS ESCAPES ILLEGAL WEAPONS CHARGES: Authorities couldn’t prove he owned two recovered handguns

Rap star Fabolous will not be charged with possession of illegal weapons after prosecutors were unable to prove that he and three co-defendants owned two loaded handguns found in a car in which they were riding.

A judge on Thursday dismissed the charges, which led to an overnight stay in jail for the Brooklyn MC last October.


"He's more relieved than happy," Fabolous’ lawyer, Alberto Ebanks, said Thursday. "He should never have been here in the first place."


The artist, whose real name is John Jackson, was arrested on Oct. 17 after being hospitalized for a minor gunshot wound following an incident at Justin's, a Manhattan restaurant and club owned by Sean "Diddy" Combs.


After someone snatched a $50,000 chain off the neck of then-Boston Celtics point guard Sebastian Telfair, gunfire broke out in a parking lot near the restaurant and Fabolous was hit in the right thigh.

He managed to escape the scene with three other men in a Dodge Magnum sport utility vehicle. While he was being treated at a hospital, police searched the vehicle and found two handguns, a .40 caliber and .380 caliber semiautomatic. Neither gun was registered and police said the serial number on the .380 had been scratched off.

"There were four guys in the car," Ebanks explained. "My client jumped in the back seat of the car after he was shot. It was not the car he came to the club in."